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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

It had to happen sometime. Let's say my cellphone detected freedom from my front shirt pocket the other day. Without looking both ways, it leapt from my person, hoping to land softly somewhere, only to land loudly into a large container of water.

I immediately fetched it, shook the water off, and looked at the screen.

Powering off device.

Ooops. It indeed turned itself off. I took the battery out, and dried it off as best I could. Without thinking, I replaced the battery and powered it back on.

This time it booted up, got past all that Verizon VCast nonsense, and there I had my home screen. With one caveat. Below my custom string were the words in bold:

Car Kit

Weird. So this thing has some kind of hidden car kit mode? It began to power down again, and the screen changed to the Verizon logo, beneath that a large LG icon, and below that in debug text

Downloading...

What was it trying to download? Was this a pristine state whereby the software needed to be downloaded in order to run? Was I looking at firmware?

I thought the phone was screwed, and I shouldn't have been playing with it since obviously there was still some precipitate within the device messing things up. It wasn't in the water but a second, but that might have been enough.

I took the battery out, opened the clamshell, and let her air dry over night. Initially this morning the menu button didn't do anything, but after an hour, the phone is back to normal as far as I can tell. I thought I was going to have to buck up for a new phone or another two years or something as my wife's phone has the insurance on it, not mine (she uses hers twelve thousand times more than I do mine).

I suppose the key is to remove power and just let it dry out. Hopefully it will come back to life. I wonder how well an iPhone can handle water submersion?

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